KUT's Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon was at the service and put together this video:

According to the House the Homeless website:

Every year since 1992, we have met at the Homeless Memorial and Tree of Remembrance at South First and Riverside Drive on Auditorium Shores. This is on the south side of Lady Bird Lake. For 20 years, we have had song, prayed, broken bread and read the names of the women, men and children who have lived and died in poverty in Austin.

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